Internet service company to show Cove in Japan

Protests forced theater owners to take controversial film off screens

TOKYO - Japanese will finally get to see The Cove - but as streaming video on the Internet, not at movie theaters, as screenings of the dolphin-hunt documentary have been canceled due to loud nationalists' protests.

Niwango Inc., a Tokyo-based Internet services company, said Thursday the Oscar-winning documentary that depicts the annual dolphin hunt in the small village of Taiji will be shown on its site Friday free of charge.